Is It O.K. to Be Gay Again?

I just read that Gays now want to be called Queers. That's a relief because I've been ticked for years that they appropriated a perfectly good word for telling people how happy and light-hearted you were. I'm gay again! But not so fast, a voice in my head says. They probably call themselves "queer" but they don't want other people calling them that. Black people freely call themselves "niggers" but if a white person calls them that...well, you wouldn't be gay for long. So maybe I will hold off calling myself gay. But I am a happy person.